Chapter 15: Kwame-Brown
The Knicks and Wizards were very close, and at the end of the first quarter, the Knicks entered the second quarter by a narrow one-point margin, and both sides switched to their own rotations at the beginning of the second quarter. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 However, to the dismay of many neutral fans, the high-profile high school student Quadme Brown still did not appear.
Nearly half of the second quarter, No. 23 did not return to the court after accumulating physical strength, so the Wizards had to face the Knicks' two-old interior combination, Ewing partnered Johnson, and the two formed a strong and very efficient link.
The Wizards are gradually falling behind, after all, the Wizards' interior level, not to mention the entire league, even if you look at the East, the Wizards' interior configuration belongs to some weak personnel matching, Ewing and Johnson led the Knicks' second team and almost beat the Wizards' side.
Wizards coach Doug Collins frowned and kept walking back and forth on the sidelines, as the original coach of Joe Gang and the successor of the Detroit Bad Boys Army, his acupuncture skills are still very strong, at least much stronger than Van Gundy, but one thing is even more excessive than Van Gundy, that is, he often has a long hesitation in the choice of tactics, such as now, the Wizards' interior line has been hung by the two old men of the Knicks, but he is still hesitating whether to make a substitution.
When the Knicks hit a 7-2 spurt, Doug Collins finally couldn't help but call a timeout for substitutions.
The Wizards don't have many people available on the inside, but there is one who is the new high school top, Kwame Brown.
As the champion hand-picked by "God", the pressure on Kwame Brown can be imagined, and the always heartless high school student said, "I'm absolutely fine, and if I don't perform well, you can replace me."
Kwame Brown, a talented high school player who was 19 years old and 228 days old at the time, took to the court at Madison Square Garden, considered the mecca of the league, to start the first game of his career.
Kwame Brown looked very excited when he came on the court, and he went straight to the low post to ask for the ball to give Mo Xi a look. But on this way, there are two points that he forgot or didn't pay attention to, first, most of his own offensive means are the ability to make fouls and the second offense under the basket, of course, this is mainly because of his excellent physical fitness, which gives him some advantages in rebounding; Second, and this is also the most important place, as a high school student, although he is about the same age as the average freshman, but he has only played a prestigious role in the high school league, and he is very immature in many places, such as the physical confrontation that has been emphasized many times.
Kwame Brown was surprised to find that he couldn't go to the low position at all, because the yellow-skinned monkey in front of him easily tied him to the horn position, directly stuck Kwame Brown, and made him not have to go down an inch.
Kwame Brown's offense was stillborn before it could start, and Joe Gang Leader looked at him from the sidelines and covered his head, saying, "We weren't so stupid when we played, what's wrong with the kids now." ”
Brown's active offense failed, and the Wizards immediately turned the offensive arrow, and point guard Chris Whitney simply took advantage of Brown's cover to get rid of the defender, intending to directly attack the basket.
However, the Knicks' change of defense was very fast, and Mo Xi immediately made up for the defense, but considering the problem of his own movement speed, Mo Xi only blocked the opponent's breakthrough route, or left room for the opponent to shoot.
But Whitney didn't make good use of the shooting space of this step, he first pulled a step back, intending to completely leave the defensive space of Moxi, but because of this step, Ward, who came off the bench, seized the opportunity and quickly changed the defense, Whitney lost this offensive opportunity, but he was also thirty-one years old and still had a great dominance advantage over Ward, who had just changed the defense, Whitney took this opportunity to suddenly change direction and brush Ward away, and hit the basket again.
It's a pity that this time, he really underestimated Mo Xi's defense.
Mo Xi's defense has very distinct center characteristics, and he has a strong arch defense ability under the basket, but the control of the periphery defense and rebounding is much worse, but for this kind of behavior of giving people away, Mo Xi still laughs.
Raising his hand, "pop~", Mo Xi fanned the ball from the air.
Ward, who was following behind, grabbed the backcourt rebound and controlled the ball in his hands. The Knicks took the tempo into their own hands and began to push at their own pace.
Mo Xi has a certain tactical choice, and at this time, I don't know what his purpose is, he simply chose the path of singles, and when he suddenly saw the rookie, he felt that he wanted the other party to taste what he had experienced back then.
Mo Xi's key position is very shallow, a little lower than the horn position, and here, Kwame Brown even thinks that the other party is going to respond to the high position here, but feels that this position seems to be a little too far in.
Just when Kwame Brown was guessing, Mo Xi gave the other party a rare kind hint, and he said: "Actually, I'm going to attack." ”
Kwame Brown was a little stunned, and at this time, Mo Xi shamelessly began to bully the rookie, and directly took out his signature back man ball. Mo Xi resisted Kwame Brown, suddenly exerted force, knocked the opponent's body backwards, and then turned around with a beautiful back, knocked the ball behind Kwame Brown with his left hand, Mo Xi turned around and passed Kwame Brown, turned around, and received the ball and went directly to the basket.
After the attack was successful, Mo Xi patted Kwame Brown on the shoulder very "kindly".
Kwame Brown was a little dumbfounded, it's a very old question, what you see off the court is never the same as what you come into contact with on the court.
Kwame Brown's nightmare is not over, and Mo Xi came to the door again in the next round of attack, this time with a very crisp attack.
Mo Xi's key position is very deep, just on the left low post, Kwame Brown is dead in the back, I don't want Mo Xi to take another step inside, but the reality is so cruel, Mo Xi began to show his level as a top center, strong back to advance, Mo Xi simple two steps, Kwame Brown to the basket, and then, Mo Xi a low step, turned, pushed Kwame Brown under the basket to the body, and then jumped in the Wizards' restricted area, As if Ewing had done to his opponent in countless years before, Mo Xi simply rode on Kwame Brown's head and came with a powerful slam dunk.
Joe's discouraged Yue Gang called a timeout and replaced Kwame Brown directly.
Sprewell joked to Mo Xi: "You said that after these two balls are played, will you beat the champion out of the psychological shadow, and simply slump from now on and become the biggest parallel champion of the gimmick?" ”
Mo Xi touched his head and said, "It shouldn't be that bad, right?" After all, I haven't tried it yet. ”